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AviationWeather.gov Data API

By product, as the docs list coverage: METAR terminal observations and TAF terminal forecasts (worldwide), SIGMET aviation warnings (worldwide), PIREPs/AIREPs ("Primarily US and North Atlantic"), G-AIRMETs ("Contiguous 48 United States"), AIRMETs (Alaska), area forecasts (Alaska), area forecast discussions, center weather advisories and meteorological impact statements (United States), the TFM Convective Forecast ("United States, portions of Canada"), and station, airport and navigation-feature information (worldwide). Formats vary by product across raw text, JSON, GeoJSON, CSV, XML and IWXXM. History: "The weather database currently allows access to up to the previous 30 days of data." Gzipped cache files of the current full datasets are updated once a minute (the stations listing once a day).

Open aviationweather.gov
Signal Scoredraft model
88
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
Custom · terms linked
13
Evidence
3 source links checked
15
Freshness
verified 2026-11-09
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
20

// Terms and limits

Access
none
Free tier
Free, no key. History is capped: "The weather database currently allows access to up to the previous 30 days of data." Gzipped cache files of the current full datasets are published for bulk use and the docs recommend them over large custom queries.
Rate limits
"All requests are rate limited to 100 requests per minute. Most endpoints return a maximum of 400 entries (please consider using cache files for larger requests)." The docs also say "Cross-origin resource sharing is not permitted at this time." and ask clients to "Set a custom user agent to prevent automated filtering inadvertently blocking valid traffic."
Licence
Customterms
Licence note
Recorded as Custom because the terms are the National Weather Service's public-domain statement rather than a licence id. The NWS disclaimer says: "The information on National Weather Service (NWS) Web pages are in the public domain, unless specifically noted otherwise, and may be used without charge for any lawful purpose so long as you do not: 1) claim it is your own (e.g., by claiming copyright for NWS information -- see below), 2) use it in a manner that implies an endorsement or affiliation with NOAA/NWS, or 3) modify its content and then present it as official government material." The same page adds that use of the NWS name and visual identifier is protected under trademark law and needs NWS permission, except to identify unaltered NWS content or links to NWS sites.
Attribution
Not required; do not imply NOAA/NWS endorsement or affiliation, do not claim the information as your own, and do not present modified content as official government material.

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-09

  1. 01aviationweather.gov/data/api/
  2. 02www.weather.gov/disclaimer
  3. 03aviationweather.gov/api/data/metar?ids=KJFK&format=json

// Good for

weatheraviationus-governmentapireal-time

// The same record, for agents

Request · get_entry
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  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "aviationweather-data-api"
    }
  }
}
Reply · selected fields
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  "slug": "aviationweather-data-api",
  "domain": "Weather",
  "type": "Dataset",
  "badge": "Free",
  "auth": "none",
  "rateLimits": "\"All requests are rate limited to 100 requests per minute. Most endpoints return a maximum of 400 entries (please consider using cache files for larger requests).\" The docs also say \"Cross-origin resource sharing is not permitted at this time.\" and ask clients to \"Set a custom user agent to prevent automated filtering inadvertently blocking valid traffic.\"",
  "license": "Custom",
  "licenseUrl": "https://www.weather.gov/disclaimer",
  "lastVerified": "2026-11-09",
  "evidenceUrls": [
    "https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/",
    "https://www.weather.gov/disclaimer",
    "https://aviationweather.gov/api/data/metar?ids=KJFK&format=json"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    "weather",
    "aviation",
    "us-government",
    "api",
    "real-time"
  ],
  "providerUrl": "https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/"
}

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